Holiday hepatics

I made a 5 day visit to Andalucía and Extremadura (SW Spain) last week, and photographed a few bryophytes as well as looking at birds, flowers, butterflies etc.  The weather was rather damp, but that meant liverworts were looking great.  I didn't make any real effort to look at bryophytes, let alone collecting them, but it was great to see some rare British species in great abundance.  These included Bartramia stricta (photo), Cheilothela chloropus, Riccia nigrella (photo) and Targionia hypophylla (photo).  I only found Sphaerocarpos sp. (photo) once.

 Three liverworts that are absent from Britain were especially interesting: Riccia bicarinata (photo), R. lamellosa (photo) and the wonderful Oxymitra incrassata (photo).